Comments on: Heiddeger and Zen: An Exploration http://transvaluation.wordpress.com welcome to my average-everydayness Fri, 08 May 2009 18:34:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Christopher Perry http://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2070 Christopher Perry Fri, 08 May 2009 18:34:48 +0000 https://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2070 Julian, Hitler and the Nazis did not adhere to Eastern thought. It is a less than well known fact that Hitler's movement was Christian. There is more than ample evidence that proves this here: http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm Julian, Hitler and the Nazis did not adhere to Eastern thought. It is a less than well known fact that Hitler’s movement was Christian. There is more than ample evidence that proves this here:

http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

]]> By: Julian Hinton http://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2064 Julian Hinton Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:38:17 +0000 https://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2064 How do you know what Heidegger read and understood of Eastern thought? He probably read Shoppenhaur who read eastern religious texts (presumably translated into German) and advocated for them as philosophies. German thinking was deeply interested in eastern ideas - Hitler and the Nazis made a cult of them - hence the Swastika and fascination with other Eastern mythologies etc. This was Heidegger's world too as a card carrying Nazi. How do you know what Heidegger read and understood of Eastern thought? He probably read Shoppenhaur who read eastern religious texts (presumably translated into German) and advocated for them as philosophies. German thinking was deeply interested in eastern ideas – Hitler and the Nazis made a cult of them – hence the Swastika and fascination with other Eastern mythologies etc. This was Heidegger’s world too as a card carrying Nazi.

]]> By: Artur http://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2063 Artur Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:46:59 +0000 https://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-2063 Zen and other variants of Buddhism are deeply metaphysical discourses that articulate a particular ontology rooted in conservative theological traditions and based on a conception of "truth" Heidegger would have never, in a million years, endorsed if he actually understood it in terms of its own historical specificity and cultural meaning. Now, this is not to say that Heidegger (or anyone else) cannot or should not play "thought experiments" with Buddhist traditions, trying trace analogies in them of various stands of (equally historically specific) Euro-American philosophies, but this is very different from claiming any sort of "understanding" (in the Heideggerian sense) of Buddhism which requires sestained engagement with the particularity of Buddhist language (in both "originary" and more everyday senses). Furthermore, such analyses of Zen fail to recognize the massive impact the tradition of German and French Indology, throughout the 19th century, had on _constructing_ a representation of Zen that accorded well with European modernist reactions against Christianity. This is the image of Buddhism and of Zen that Heidegger was heir to. It was the same intellectual lineage which produced a Holderlin, et al.; thus is should not be surprising that in these representations of Buddhism (still too common in the West) Heidegger should see echoes of his own thought. Zen and other variants of Buddhism are deeply metaphysical discourses that articulate a particular ontology rooted in conservative theological traditions and based on a conception of “truth” Heidegger would have never, in a million years, endorsed if he actually understood it in terms of its own historical specificity and cultural meaning. Now, this is not to say that Heidegger (or anyone else) cannot or should not play “thought experiments” with Buddhist traditions, trying trace analogies in them of various stands of (equally historically specific) Euro-American philosophies, but this is very different from claiming any sort of “understanding” (in the Heideggerian sense) of Buddhism which requires sestained engagement with the particularity of Buddhist language (in both “originary” and more everyday senses). Furthermore, such analyses of Zen fail to recognize the massive impact the tradition of German and French Indology, throughout the 19th century, had on _constructing_ a representation of Zen that accorded well with European modernist reactions against Christianity. This is the image of Buddhism and of Zen that Heidegger was heir to. It was the same intellectual lineage which produced a Holderlin, et al.; thus is should not be surprising that in these representations of Buddhism (still too common in the West) Heidegger should see echoes of his own thought.

]]> By: Bruce http://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-1938 Bruce Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:38:44 +0000 https://transvaluation.wordpress.com/heiddeger-and-zen-an-exploration/#comment-1938 In further considering the relation between Heidegger and Zen, consider what he says in the Zollikon Seminars, "Yet one must look upon the useful as 'what makes someone whole', that is, what makes the human being at home with himself. In Greek, theoria is pure repose, the highest form of energia, the highest manner of putting-oneself-into-work without regard for all machinations. [It is] the letting come to presence of presencing itself." (ZolliKon Seminars, p. 160). This, of course, is a much later Heidegger than the Heidegger of "Being and Time". In further considering the relation between Heidegger and Zen, consider what he says in the Zollikon Seminars,

“Yet one must look upon the useful as ‘what makes someone whole’, that is, what makes the human being at home with himself.

In Greek, theoria is pure repose, the highest form of energia, the highest manner of putting-oneself-into-work without regard for all machinations. [It is] the letting come to presence of presencing itself.” (ZolliKon Seminars, p. 160).

This, of course, is a much later Heidegger than the Heidegger of “Being and Time”.

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